Alright, so I'm pretty sure this has probably already been covered, but wanted to rehash it..
by the way, creator of SR: YOU ARE MY HERO. Seriously, I never thought killing damnyankees could get old until I played the vanilla Civil War of this game, but since you modded it it ROCKS.
Except for one little thing that bugs me...
States coming home: While I LOVE that states, after having been whipped by the Confederates, decide to exercise their newly-granted States' Rights by declaring their support for the Confederacy and becoming a Confederate state, it bugs me how this pans out in practice on the game.
For example, in my game, I've managed to take all the territory of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Philadeplhia, have pushed the Unionists out of Western Virginia and have armies there guarding it, an have held onto Bowling Green and Louisville, while having lost all the territory west of the Mississippi but I have a very resolute Gen. Beauregard holding onto Vicksburg and stopping any Union attempt to reach the Eastern Bank. Lee and a 7 stack, along with Johnson and a 4 stack and Jackson and a 5 stack are camped out in Philly, the northernmost part of NJ, and western Maryland, respectively. In other words, the Union can't crack me, but at the same time I haven't got anything big enough to take New York (a 12 stack sits there), and they have forces of 3 and 4 stacks everywhere north of Kentucky and East to NY preventing me from launching a combined assault of Lee and the other 2 on NY without subsequently losing EVERYTHING (already tried).
I have a warscore of like 25, and it's 1864. So I figure, hey, my objective was to keep the West Virginia coal country, I'll sit it out and with this warscore surely Lincoln will lose and I'll get peace (note: the 1865 election is the only way so far in which I've managed to actually win the War Between the States).
Right? Wrong.
I suddenly have the seemingly greatest thing happen to me-Delaware, followed closely by Maryland, repent their transgressions and join my cause! Yay!
But...since they're not Confederate states, 2 things happen. My warscore drops b/c they aren't occuppied union states, AND my warscore PLUMMETS because the U.S. capital moves-not even to Philly-it moves to impenetrable NEW YORK. So even THOUGH I've beaten the Yanks so badly in the North that the border states are flocking to my cause, even though I now call Washington just another city in the Confederacy-the game's war score system utterly ignores this and says to itself "well you only control the Union territories of Bowling Green, Louisville, New Jersey and Philly, while the Union controls all the West, so why should we acknowledge that you conquered Maryland and Delaware, much less the Union capital, at all?"
So suddenly my warscore tanks to about +10, Lincoln wins the election, I'm at the max size I can be without being invaded and the Union's steadily building more and more armies and eventually pushes me back out of WV and quickly defeats me.
Before event fires-it was apparent I'd won major victories, the North was about ready to say uncle, and was falling apart so badly that extra states were leaving the Union.
After event fires?-Oh boy, you haven't even scratched us! We'll just re-elect the loser of Maryland, the CAPITAL, and Delaware and he'll throw together new armies to crush you relentlessly.
How does that jive with the reality of public opinion?
So, to sum up this long post-what/why does this happen the way it does, is there anything I can do I suppose to KEEP Delaware and Maryland from joining if I conquer them, so that even though they want to be states I can still have a prayer of winning the war, and has anybody even managed to take them and win?
I've essentially given up on that game. I've kept the save file, but now I'm gonna do a new one where I focus solely on the NE to try to keep the Union's armies from mobilizing so big. If I can put just a touch of pressure on Kentucky to make some of them move West, I hope to be able to carve a line through to New York and with alot of luck perhaps even take the majority of New England before they know what hit them, THEN I'll try to see if I can conquer Delaware and all of Maryland...that's the only way I know how to try to come out in better shape than the basic, though it's going to be very shoe-string on whether I can manage to pull any of that off before Sherman marches to the sea. It's the best shot I can think of rather than giving up for-ever the idea of claiming any of the border states (or Western Virginia) as my own.
If anybody knows a good way to beat this chain of events, please let me know! Thanks, and seriously thanks for the mod-I just wish that there was a historical precedent for "Oh Germany took France, but since it set up a pro-German government there, the world doesn't care a lick that France got taken"
